Location: Austin, TX, USA
Remote: Yes, preferred. Open to hybrid in Austin.
Willing to relocate: No.
Technologies:
- Data Storage: AWS S3, BigQuery, GCS, PostgreSQL, Redshift, Snowflake
- DataOps: dbt (Cloud/Core), Fivetran, Hightouch, Looker Studio, Metabase, Tableau, Hex
- AI: Anthropic, Cursor, Midjourney, Ollama, OpenAI
- Programming: Bash, GitHub, HTML, CSS, Python, SQL
- Product: Arcade, Betterstack, Hotjar, Intercom, Retool, Segment
- Web & Design: Descript, Docusaurus, Figma, Ghost, GitBook, Sanity.io, Webflow
- GTM: Ahrefs, Apollo, Clay, Google Ads, Salesforce
- Productivity: Airtable, Linear, Notion, Slack, Zapier
Résumé/CV: https://bburch.my/resume
Email: agile.desk3846@fastmail.com (masked address so I can filter out spam)
Hey - I'm Blake! I'm a seasoned technical product leader with 10+ years building AI-powered data products and B2B SaaS platforms. I was previously the first analytics hire at Roboflow (Vision AI), co-founder at Shipyard (data orchestration), and Head of Data Products at PMG Advertising Agency. My experience spans early-stage IC work to building a department of 12.
I'm looking for technical PM roles at mission-driven companies, ideally smaller orgs, where I can build from the ground up. I prefer a ~70/30 leader/IC split with a focus on AI and data-adjacent work. I'm open to any industry except advertising, gambling, crypto, and defense.
Location: Austin, TX, USA
Remote: Yes, preferred. Open to hybrid in Austin.
Willing to relocate: No.
Technologies:
- Data Storage: AWS S3, BigQuery, GCS, PostgreSQL, Redshift, Snowflake
- DataOps: dbt (Cloud/Core), Fivetran, Hightouch, Looker Studio, Metabase, Tableau, Hex
- AI: Anthropic, Cursor, Midjourney, Ollama, OpenAI
- Programming: Bash, GitHub, HTML, CSS, Python, SQL
- Product: Arcade, Betterstack, Hotjar, Intercom, Retool, Segment
- Web & Design: Descript, Docusaurus, Figma, Ghost, GitBook, Sanity.io, Webflow
- GTM: Ahrefs, Apollo, Clay, Google Ads, Salesforce
- Productivty: Airtable, Linear, Notion, Slack, Zapier
Résumé/CV: https://bburch.my/resume
Email: agile.desk3846@fastmail.com (masked address so I can filter out spam)
I'm a seasoned technical product leader with 10+ years experience building data-intensive products and B2B SaaS platforms that drive adoption and scale.
I was previously the first product analytics hire at a Vision AI startup, Roboflow. Before that, I co-founded a B2B data operations tool, Shipyard. Earlier in my career, I was the Head of Data Products at PMG Advertising Agency where I built the team from the ground up. With a wide array of experience across Product, Data, and AI, I've led teams of up to 12 and have also been in the weeds as a department of one.
It's most important for me to work for a mission-driven company that wants to scale with bold and innovative approaches. I want to sink my teeth into tough problems, learn new things, and work with interesting and curious people.
I'm primarily looking for technical product roles. I enjoy ideating solutions, building MVPs, experimentation, and orchestrating all of the work to achieve a strategic vision. I prefer a roughly 70/30 split between leader/IC. I prefer smaller organizations with the ability to build something from the ground up. Despite my background, I'd like to avoid working in the advertising space.
Location: Austin, TX, USA
Remote: Yes, preferred. Open to hybrid in Austin.
Willing to relocate: No.
Technologies:
- Data Storage: AWS S3, BigQuery, GCS, PostgreSQL, Redshift, Snowflake
- DataOps: dbt (Cloud/Core), Fivetran, Hightouch, Looker Studio, Metabase, Tableau, Hex
- AI: Anthropic, Cursor, Midjourney, Ollama, OpenAI
- Programming: Bash, GitHub, HTML, CSS, Python, SQL
- Product: Arcade, Betterstack, Hotjar, Intercom, Retool, Segment
- Web & Design: Descript, Docusaurus, Figma, Ghost, GitBook, Sanity.io, Webflow
Résumé/CV: https://bburch.my/resume
Email: agile.desk3846@fastmail.com (masked address so I can filter out spam)
I'm a seasoned data + AI leader with 10+ years experience building high-performance teams focused on automation, analytics, and data-driven results. I'm the type of person who looks at complex data challenges and sees opportunities for radical transformation. Whether it's automating workflows, experimenting with AI, or creating novel ML models that drive efficiency, I'm all about pushing boundaries and turning data into a growth accelerator.
I was previously the first analytics hire at a Computer Vision startup, Roboflow. Before that, I was co-founder of a B2B data operations tool, Shipyard. Earlier in my career, I was the Head of Data at PMG Digital Agency where I built the team from the ground up. It's most important for me to work for a mission-driven company that wants to scale with bold and innovative approaches. I want to sink my teeth into tough problems and learn new things.
I'm primarily looking for data leadership or technical product roles. I enjoy ideating solutions, building MVPs, experimentation, and orchestrating all of the work to achieve a strategic vision. I prefer a 70/30 split between leader/IC. I prefer smaller organizations with the ability to build something from the ground up. Despite my background, I'd like to avoid working in the advertising space.
I really enjoyed sanity.io a year ago. It had the best data structure flexibility by a mile, with the ability to have multiple user draft states and merge conflict resolution.
Other Headless CMS felt restrictive, with shared drafts or the requirement for all published items to have changes go live instantly.
Once you're set up with your schema, the UI is easy enough for non-developers (and you can customize it for them if needed).
Really fun to see! I'd love to have something similar for esports, like League of Legends or Rocket League. So much of the commentary feels like filler with stats and statements about a player.
Have done an interactive commentator for rocket league that is also simultaneously your duo partner. Works quite well. This was in October 2024 so the tech is there and even better now.
If the employer adds more friction with custom, upfront questions, they drastically reduce the quantity of applications while increasing the quality of those left.
If the employer doesn't post to job boards, they reduce the quantity of applications, but they increase those that found them "direct" and likely care more about the company.
It's not perfect, but the biggest issue right now is that both sides are typically trying to put as little effort in as possible.
Debatable. Willingness to put effort into a job application is not necessarily a good proxy for candidate quality. Indeed I would expect that the most desirable candidates can put the least effort in whereas those who are most willing to put up with crap are those with the fewest alternatives. I suppose for certain management structures someone having no better options could be seen as a plus - they'll stick around longer, put up with abuse, probably work for lower pay and less frequent raises - but I feel like they would still do better with appropriately skilled and compensated employees.
A bypass is not possible. I believe the raybans meta have an "always on" AI mode/session now.
To be honest, the biggest issue with the glasses is battery life and I don't see that changing any time soon. It doesn't matter what LLM processes your data if it can only do it for one hour per charge.
You can use it like this, it's just that it's integrated with Meta's companion app which also has AI capabilities.
Personally, I found the AI capabilities kind of lackluster now but I'm sure more features will be added in the future.
The most useful features I found were taking quick photos and video calls with friends and family while away on work trips. Music playback was also decent but it eats up the limited battery.
The AI stuff is already offloaded to Meta servers via your phone.
I don't think there are any models AI that would be able to run natively on phones with acceptable performance.
Even if it did, my experience with video calls and the glasses are that the battery only lasts about 45minutes so I'm guessing slightly better performance for always on AI depending on what features you use.
I'm looking for technical PM roles at mission-driven companies, ideally smaller orgs, where I can build from the ground up. I prefer a ~70/30 leader/IC split with a focus on AI and data-adjacent work. I'm open to any industry except advertising, gambling, crypto, and defense.
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